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Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
ISBN: 9783868287844
Category : Atlantic City (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Imagination and reality of the two classic gambling centers in the USA: Las Vegas and Atlantic City

Author: Richard O. Block
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438469551
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today. Queer theory has focused heavily on North American and contemporary contexts, but in this book Richard O. Block helps to expand that reach. Deftly combining the two main currents of recent queer theory, the asocial and the reparative, he reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800, while relating his findings to recent texts such as A Lover’s Discourse and Brokeback Mountain. He offers novel readings of well-known texts by Shelley, Kleist, and Goethe, arguing that this early writing serves as a creative font for much of the subsequent work in sexology. These texts also provide echoes of a kind of love overlooked or suppressed in favor of a politics of appeasement or one intended to make queers model citizens. This book charts the unexplored possibilities for queer love in an attempt to map a future for gay politics in the age of homonormativity. “Compelling and highly original, this book offers a major intervention into queer theory, while at the same time performing stunning feats of literary and film criticism. This is a work of first-rate intelligence, style, and critical and theoretical precision.” — John David Rhodes, University of Cambridge

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Pages : 100

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Author: John Paulett
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738532790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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A pictorial tour of many of Chicago's famed architectural wonders includes the old Northwestern Train station, the Coliseum, the Chicago Stadium, old Comiskey Park, Soldier Field, and some of Chicago's most famous diners.

Author: Karl B. Raitz
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801851551
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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From there two routes went west toward the Mississippi River, one to East St. Louis and the other to Alton, Illinois. (Today the Road's path is followed, for the most part, by U.S. 40 and I-70.).

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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Author: Dominic A. Pacyga
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226644324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second City.” At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. In this magisterial biography, historian Dominic Pacyga traces the storied past of his hometown, from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today. The city’s great industrialists, reformers, and politicians—and, indeed, the many not-so-great and downright notorious—animate this book, from Al Capone and Jane Addams to Mayor Richard J. Daley and President Barack Obama. But what distinguishes this book from the many others on the subject is its author’s uncommon ability to illuminate the lives of Chicago’s ordinary people. Raised on the city’s South Side and employed for a time in the stockyards, Pacyga gives voice to the city’s steelyard workers and kill floor operators, and maps the neighborhoods distinguished not by Louis Sullivan masterworks, but by bungalows and corner taverns. Filled with the city’s one-of-a-kind characters and all of its defining moments, Chicago: A Biography is as big and boisterous as its namesake—and as ambitious as the men and women who built it.

Author: Ivan Brunetti
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300184409
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Presents a collection of the author's works, including concept art and finished products.